Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the that stands at the north end of the in London, England.
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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of around 60 feet (20 metres)
  • …is named after Elizabeth II
  • …stands 315 feet (96 metres) tall
  • …has a pyramidal roof
  • Description: tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben
  • Address: London, SW1A 2JR
  • Also known as
    “Big Ben (bell)”
    “Big Ben Tower”
    “Clock Tower”
    “Elizabeth Tower”
    “Saint Stephen Tower”
    “St Stephen’s Tower”
    “The St. Stephen’s Tower”
    “Tower of Big Ben”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Westminster Abbey.
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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of .
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, formally titled the Collegiate… is situated 800 feet southwest of Big Ben.
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The , originally the Millennium Wheel… is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Big Ben.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westminster and Whitehall.
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is the main settlement of the in , England.
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is a road and area in the , Central London, England.
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is a district in , and part…

Big Ben

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Latitude
51.5007° or 51° 30′ 3″ north
Longitude
-0.12457° or 0° 7′ 29″ west
Open location code
9C3XGV2G+75
Open­Street­Map ID
way 123557148
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6618994
Wiki­data ID
Q41225

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Big Ben” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Big Ben”
  • Albanian: “Big Ben”
  • Arabic: “بج بن”
  • Arabic: “بغ بن”
  • Arabic: “بيج بن”
  • Arabic: “بيج بين”
  • Arabic: “بيغ بن”
  • Arabic: “بيغ بين”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيج بن”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيغ بن”
  • Arabic: “ساعة بيغ بين”
  • Arabic: “ساعه بج بن”
  • Armenian: “Բիգ Բեն”
  • Armenian: “Եղիսաբեթի աշտարակ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biq Ben”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yelizaveta qülləsi”
  • Basque: “Big Ben”
  • Belarusian: “Біг-Бен”
  • Belarusian: “Біг-Бэн”
  • Belarusian: “Вежа Лізаветы”
  • Belarusian: “Гадзіннікавая вежа”
  • Bengali: “বিগ বেন”
  • Bengali: “বিগ ব্যান”
  • Betawi: “Jem Inggris”
  • Bosnian: “Big Ben”
  • Bulgarian: “Биг Бен”
  • Burmese: “ဘစ်ဘင်နာရီစင်”
  • Catalan: “Big Ben”
  • Catalan: “Torre del Rellotge del Palau de Westminster”
  • Cebuano: “Big Ben (bantayog)”
  • Cebuano: “Big Ben”
  • Central Bikol: “Big Ben”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیگ بن”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیگ بێن”
  • Chechen: “Биг Бен”
  • Chinese: “伊丽莎白塔”
  • Chinese: “伊麗莎白塔(大笨鐘）”
  • Chinese: “大本钟”
  • Chinese: “大班鐘”
  • Chinese: “大笨鐘”
  • Chinese: “大笨钟”
  • Chinese: “威斯敏斯特宫钟塔”
  • Croatian: “Big Ben”
  • Czech: “Big Ben”
  • Danish: “Big Ben”
  • Dutch: “Big Ben”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيج بين”
  • Esperanto: “Big Ben”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Benĉjo”
  • Estonian: “Big Ben”
  • Estonian: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Finnish: “Big Ben”
  • French: “Big Ben”
  • French: “Tour de l’horloge”
  • French: “Tour Élisabeth”
  • Galician: “Big Ben”
  • Georgian: “ბიგ-ბენი”
  • German: “A torre de st. Stephen”
  • German: “Big Ben”
  • Greek: “Μπιγκ Μπεν”
  • Hebrew: “ביג בן”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל אליזבת‘”
  • Hindi: “बिग बेन”
  • Hungarian: “Big Ben”
  • Icelandic: “Big Ben”
  • Icelandic: “Klukkuturn Westminsterhallar”
  • Indonesian: “Big Ben”
  • Irish: “Big Ben”
  • Italian: “Big Ben”
  • Italian: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Japanese: “エリザベス・タワー”
  • Japanese: “エリザベス塔”
  • Japanese: “ビッグ・ベン”
  • Javanese: “Big Ben”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಗ್ ಬೆನ್ ಗಡಿಯಾರಗೋಪುರ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಗ್ ಬೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Big Ben”
  • Kazakh: “Big Ben”
  • Kazakh: “Биг Бен”
  • Kirghiz: “Биг Бен”
  • Korean: “빅 벤”
  • Latin: “Beniaminus Magnus”
  • Latin: “Big Ben”
  • Latin: “Magnum Cloccarium Beni”
  • Latin: “Magnus Beniaminus”
  • Latvian: “Big Bens”
  • Latvian: “Big-Ben”
  • Latvian: “Vestminsteras pils pulkstenis”
  • Latvian: “Vestminsteras pils pulksteņtornis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Big Ben”
  • Lithuanian: “Big Benas”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono bokštas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestminsterio laikrodžio bokštas”
  • Macedonian: “Биг Бен”
  • Malay: “Big Ben”
  • Malayalam: “എലിസബത്ത് ടവർ”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഗ് ബെൻ”
  • Marathi: “बिग बेन”
  • Minangkabau: “Big Ben”
  • Mongolian: “Биг Бэн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيڭ بين”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Ben”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great bell”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Big Ben”
  • Norwegian: “Big Ben”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Big Ben”
  • Ossetian: “Биг-Бен”
  • Persian: “بیگ بن”
  • Persian: “ساعت بیگ بن”
  • Polish: “Big Ben”
  • Portuguese: “Big Ben”
  • Romanian: “Big Ben”
  • Russian: “Big-ben”
  • Russian: “Башня Елизаветы”
  • Russian: “Биг Бен”
  • Russian: “Биг Бэн”
  • Scots: “Big Ben”
  • Serbian: “Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster”
  • Serbian: “Clock Tower”
  • Serbian: “Биг Бен”
  • Serbian: “Елизабетин торањ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Big Ben”
  • Slovak: “Elizabeth Tower”
  • Slovak: “Hodinová veža”
  • Slovenian: “Big Ben”
  • Slovenian: “Elizabetin stolp”
  • Somali: “Big Ben”
  • Spanish: “Big Ben”
  • Swedish: “Big Ben-klockan”
  • Swedish: “Big Ben”
  • Swedish: “Great bell of Westminster”
  • Tamil: “பிக் பென்”
  • Tatar: “Биг-Бен”
  • Tatar: “Элизабет манарасы”
  • Telugu: “బిగ్ బెన్”
  • Thai: “บิกเบน”
  • Thai: “หอนาฬิกาบิ๊กเบน”
  • Thai: “หอนาฬิกาพระราชวังเวสต์มินสเตอร์”
  • Thai: “หอแห่งบิกเบน”
  • Tibetan: “པིན་ཆེན་ཆུ་ཚོད།”
  • Turkish: “Big ben saat kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Big Ben”
  • Ukrainian: “Біг-Бен”
  • Ukrainian: “Біґ-Бен”
  • Urdu: “بگ بین گھنٹا”
  • Urdu: “بگ بین”
  • Uzbek: “Big Ben”
  • Venetian: “Big Ben”
  • Vietnamese: “Big Ben”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Big Ben”
  • Welsh: “Big Ben”
  • Welsh: “Tŵr Elisabeth”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիկ Պեն ժամացոյցը”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիկ Պեն”
  • Western Panjabi: “بگ بن”
  • Wu Chinese: “大本钟”
  • Yue Chinese: “大笨鐘”

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